There’s no greater mystery in baseball this year than the New York Mets, now in their third year under billionaire owner Steve Cohen.
It was an epically aggressive offseason in Queens after the Mets got hot late and took the eventual champion Dodgers to Game 6 of the NLCS. Cohen and team president David Stearns went right to work and improved their team across the board. Better yet, some came at a cost to the crosstown rival New York Yankees.
Clay Holmes was an All-Star closer in the Bronx? Let’s give him $38 million over three years and not just convert him to a starter, but the Opening Day starter.